Author: Mcallister, James W.
Paperback; 9 B&w Photographs
248 pages
Published: December 1999
Cornell University Press
ISBN: 0801486254

How reasonable and rational can science be when its practitioners speak of revolutions in their thinking and extol certain theories for their beauty? James W. McAllister addresses this question with the first systematic study of the aesthetic evaluations that scientists pass on their theories.Examines the basic philosphical and sociological theories of the role of aestheics in science. How reasonable and rational can science be when its practitioners speak of revolutions in their thinking and extol certain theories for their beauty? The author of this work addresses this question with a systematic study of the aesthetic evaluations that scientists pass on their theories.